Mr. Yee has a BS in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA and an MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado. He has served as Chief Engineer for five spacecraft, Integration and Test Lead for two spacecraft, Program Manager for a spacecraft and a launch vehicle, and has had a lead role in flight operations on two missions. He has also served as a director of new business development and has lead or contributed to dozens of proposals.

TJ Sayer has over twenty years of experience working in small companies growing and developing new products into commercial successes. At Sierra Nevada Corporation, TJ and Terrance oversaw the technical execution of over $100M in contracts for a commercial space program and have worked together on four other major satellite programs.

In May of 2013, Brandon graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a MS in Aerospace Engineering, where he served as project manager for his graduate design capstone project. He previously earned his BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois and interned for the Black Sun team for two years as a graduate student.

Zherrina graduated from UCSD with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in May of 2013. She began interning for the project in June of 2013. At UCSD, she worked as an undergraduate researcher for a biological materials-inspired engineering lab and, for her senior project, designed a human head-and-neck phantom for aid in radiation therapy for the Moore's Cancer Center.

Steven graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a BS in Aerospace Engineering in May of 2013. During his undergraduate career, Steven interned at Lockheed Martin, served as project manager for a JPL sponsored senior capstone project, and interned for the Black Sun team for two years.

Adam earned his MS degree in Electrical Engineering in December 2012 at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he did web programming with Ground Segment for the DANDE satellite at the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the Colorado School of Mines. He also has experience in education and with nonprofit organizations.

Mr. Lebedeff's experience is broad and international, encompassing high technologies, product design, project management and business development. He has served as CEO and Chief Consultant of Ostrovka LLC (a private marketing and business development consulting firm), Chief Technical Officer and Business Development Director at Jaksiko JSC, and Marketing Director at NIIT Lomonosov University.